Author Topic: What is your all-time $/DL at IS? (Read 15658 times)

berryspun · « **on:** April 23, 2007, 21:58 »

Adelaide got me curious in the SS 5c raise thread:

Quote from: madelaide on April 23, 2007, 19:33

(...) the average earnings in IS are high above the minimum.

OK, I calculated my total average, and it is... 50 cents per picture!

(note: in terms of total revenues, both sites are head to head for me)

What is your IS average per picture?

lathspell · « **Reply #1 on:** April 23, 2007, 22:23 »

~$9.50 per picture, calculation based on the number of my currently active pictures. I'm not sure about the amount when calculating with all the deactivated/dollar-binned images, could be ~$8 per picture then ...

yingyang0 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 23, 2007, 22:30 »

$1.20 per photo at IS.

(note: in terms of total revenue IS is 3x as much).

berryspun · « **Reply #3 on:** April 23, 2007, 23:34 »

lathspell and yingyang0, I think that I didn't explain well the question.

What I meant for the average per picture is: the total number of pictures sold since you join IS divided by the total income you have received from IS for those sold pictures.

Sorry for the confusion, if any.

sharply_done · « **Reply #4 on:** April 24, 2007, 00:02 »

$/DL is one of the statistics I keep track of. Mine floats around $0.66.

I assumed $/DL would be a constant - I guess I was wrong.

yingyang0 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 24, 2007, 00:14 »

Quote from: berryspun on April 23, 2007, 23:34

What I meant for the average per picture is: the total number of pictures sold since you join IS divided by the total income you have received from IS for those sold pictures.

@sharply - note that berryspun for some reason wants total photos sold divided by total revenue, not $/DL.

I don't know why you want DLs/income because it's not really a meaningful statistic. But since you asked berryspun, it is $1.44.

For the more meaningful stat ($/DL), my answer is $0.69 per download.

P.S. I think you were looking for $/DL but said it wrong (twice). The first time you asked for total income divided by number of photos in portfolio.

hatman12 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 24, 2007, 00:17 »

For me, last week at IS my $/DL was $0.49.

My overall total average is $0.73.

10 week running average is $0.64 so last week was below trend.

snoozle · « **Reply #7 on:** April 24, 2007, 02:30 »

I've only been submitting there for 2 months, and don't generate the kind of sales others around here do, but my average $/dl is 53c, although the monthly totals have been quite diverse 43c last month, and 71c so far this month.

lathspell · « **Reply #8 on:** April 24, 2007, 06:49 »

Quote from: berryspun on April 23, 2007, 23:34

What I meant for the average per picture is: the total number of pictures sold since you join IS divided by the total income you have received from IS for those sold pictures.

Ooops, allright, that would make ~ $0.37 ... but I joined IS when the contributors got $0.05 royalties no matter which size.

My avarage $/DL for this month is about ~$0.63.

mattb · « **Reply #9 on:** April 24, 2007, 07:54 »

Mine is relatively low at .47, although I have a lot of pictures from my old 4mp Olympus so I'm sure I lose out on some of the higher commissions.

sim · « **Reply #10 on:** April 24, 2007, 08:45 »

Mine average is $0.58 per D/L.
Sales have rocketed in the last few weeks for me, however, it seems to be the same images that sell everyday!

berryspun · « **Reply #11 on:** April 24, 2007, 08:48 »

Quote from: yingyang0 on April 24, 2007, 00:14

P.S. I think you were looking for $/DL but said it wrong (twice). The first time you asked for total income divided by number of photos in portfolio.

yingyang0, $/DL was what I had in mind in my 1st post too, but I didn't explain it correctly. My apologies.

This post is in the context of Adelaide's point answering michaeldb about the SS raise, when he said that this 5c SS raise is 33% more than what IS pays.

For an accurate comparison, $/DL would be the reference, right?

jcphoto · « **Reply #12 on:** April 24, 2007, 09:26 »

All time average per download is .64

However, since the price restructuring in January, the average has jumped to .79 per sale.

digiology · « **Reply #13 on:** April 24, 2007, 10:03 »

.53 all time average

KiwiRob · « **Reply #14 on:** April 24, 2007, 10:05 »

I average .54 cents more than twice what I get from SS, DT is better .72 cents.

Read_My_Rights · « **Reply #15 on:** April 24, 2007, 10:06 »

stokfoto · « **Reply #16 on:** April 24, 2007, 10:25 »

.54cent but my calculation might not count as I am also a video contributer

madelaide · « **Reply #17 on:** April 24, 2007, 16:52 »

49c overall, but 59c this year with the new price structure.

Just for comparison, 72c overall in DT, 73c this year.

Regards,
Adelaide

ludesal · « **Reply #18 on:** April 24, 2007, 17:25 »

le_cyclope · « **Reply #19 on:** April 24, 2007, 20:19 »

Here's my stats:

IS: .55$/DL
DT: .85$/DL
FT: .46$/DL
ST: .88$/DL (but only 25 DL!)

and SS: .25$/DL (of course!)

One interresting note: before last raise at iStock, my ratio there was .495$/DL. So the raise for me was more than 10%.

Claude

CJPhoto · « **Reply #20 on:** April 25, 2007, 00:50 »

it is about 57c at IS but it has been going up to about 70c. Dreamstime is up to about 90c, fotolia all over the place (probably 50 - 60c), SS 25c, 123rd about 40c - 50c, and StockXpert about $1

That looks ab bit confusing:

IS 57c
DT 90c
FT 50c
SS 25c
123 40c
StockXpert $1

tln · « **Reply #21 on:** April 25, 2007, 06:52 »

US$ 0.53 / DL

Opla · « **Reply #22 on:** April 25, 2007, 07:15 »

berryspun · « **Reply #23 on:** April 25, 2007, 08:11 »

Very interesting statistics, thank you everyone. I find these numbers quite informative. In average, with the numbers posted here, IS pays at least twice as much per picture as SS (25c still applying until May 1st), but sells less. Both sites are very good earners though.

Again, thanks!

sharply_done · « **Reply #24 on:** April 25, 2007, 09:50 »

Personally, I think a more interesting and informative statistic is $/image/month. This better predicts what I can expect from a site. My stats are IS at $2+/-, SS at $1+/-, with DT and FT steady at a measly $0.20, and $0.10 respectively.

For me, the only thing stopping IS from overtaking SS is time. Some members here - most notably kosmikkreeper - have already passed this barrier.

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